Largest protest in human history
What does anybody know about what's going on in India right now? The largest protest ever. The biggest strike that's ever happened in human history. What are you guys thoughts? What's your knowledge? What's going on in India? What do you you know, I'm curious, testing out the community and see what their knowledge is on something that is actually affecting everyone
Hey, mystic scientists, thanks for posting this. You know, I think I've maybe seen less than five minutes of coverage for this on various news channels in the United States. I've had to do some independent reading reading to get pretty much any information on this whatsoever. So please correct me if I'm wrong, because, like I just alluded to I'm sort of still learning about this
So I wish people here in America actually cared about this. We're talking about our public health, chronic illnesses. Those are coral morbidities, right. Why aren't we paying attention to supporting farmers and improving the kind of food that we grow here in America and locally and growing more food locally, having more food available for even marginalized communities and communities that can't afford medicine or can't afford healthy food or organic whole foods, whole foods food. So wonder about that
And then the other thing part of these bills is that the corporations can dictate what foods, grains and things are Rowan. So no longer can the farmers decide what grows well in their community or whatever. They have to do what they're told. They won't be able to survive if they don't do what they're told by the corporations. So like I said, it's a lot what happens already here in the States
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:57
And also I'm curious what your thoughts are around if you think farmers and the people protesting are going to if they have a shot at making sure these bills don't get passed. So thank you so much for any more of your thoughts. And again for making this conversation happened
Bhavneet Athwal
@Bhavneet · 2:33
And part of the reason is because obviously a lot of the media outlets in India are government controlled, and obviously they don't want this to get out. So a lot of that news is being spread through international media outlets or social media. And I'm pretty sure people have probably seen the protests that are going on around the world, but probably didn't really know what's going on. And I agree with you
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 3:05
And so what's happening now is that the government is sort of going back and forth, having numerous consultations with the farmers, which other really should have done long ago. But it's all really culminating, and it's just getting worse because with every effort, every outreach effort, the demands are not being addressed entirely or substantially, and it isn't likely to really make any difference at this point. And I don't even think the farmers are looking for an amendment to the laws
Brooke C.
@Brooke415 · 1:10
When I first saw the topic, I was thinking immediately about Kobe and how that would be affecting what's happening, because if people are shutting down and protesting and refusing to work, first of all, they should they should totally can't imagine how they can do it, though, and survive. And then how would the intersection of what's happening with Kobe affected as well? I didn't know how I remember at one point, like the whole world was shut down at the same time
So there were like three ways funds being helped for farmers if they can't make ends meet in all three different sections, one to do with farming, where if a farmer doesn't have enough money that they can borrow money, it's like a bank, but it's not. It's like the community. We can borrow money from the community
It's like a festival, almost even though they're protesting. It's a little bit of a festival of cultures and purpose. So since that's happening, I think that's valuable on its own, in my opinion, will it make a difference? I think they won't stop. That's the thing. If you know anything about the Sikh people, especially, we trained to be warriors, like physical and emotional warriors
I believe it was optimizing French or whatever. And I think it's important that we cultivate our own gardens. There is inequality in our community, right? We can get really bogged down trying to focus on what's going on in other countries or whatever. It's funny. I'm Ironically talking about India, but really the point I'm bringing that up is what about the farmers here? Are we caring for them?
The farmers still have ownership, but the people also get ownership. And young people might get ownership of a business that can grow right and still use the market and be a part of the market and be capitalistic but still support the community, the farmers, even the young people who need work who need meaning and purpose and community. So I'm wondering, are you aware of this cooperative thing?
Obviously, we got to look at the data, but it's really interesting how there doesn't seem like to be a prevalence of an outbreak, yet millions of people have been congregating. A lot of people who are poor and malnourished are meeting, but there hasn't been a God willing there isn't any outbreak or anything
What you guys think, how can we shift the way big market corporate powers, how big are they? How powerful are they? How can we shift them as people and not just wait for them to make virtue signaling, you know, changes in, like, not their executive, but, like, you know, lower executive or whatever, right? Like the virtue signaling things that people do to make it look like they're helping when they could really help and people would love them
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 3:18
There isn't a lot of hierarchy in the sense that people are actually elected to post, and they're deserving because they have a track record of having helped farmers before and in terms of financial credit as well. People would trust that more than they would trust a conventional bank. So that's all I really know about it. But I will speak with some people and get back to you who I know are more well versed on the subject, if that helps